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"Beards, Sandals, and Other Signs of Rugged Individualism": Masculine Culture within the Computing Professions.

Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, male computer experts were able to successfully transform the "routine and mechanical" (and therefore feminized) activity of computer programming into a highly valued, well-paying, and professionally respectable discipline. They did so by constructing for them...

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Published in:Osiris Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 38 - 66
Main Author: Ensmenger, Nathan
Format: Essay
Published: University of Chicago Press 2015
Subjects:
Computer programming
Masculine identity
Gender stereotypes
Computer science
Male domination (Social structure)
Weizenbaum, Joseph
Turkle, Sherry
History
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